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Know Your Rights: a workshop for food and land workers
Feeling undervalued in food or land work? Join this free online session by SALT Union this June and get clued up on your rights and start building worker power.
Are you frustrated and exhausted by working without job security, decent pay, power to influence decisions, or workplace cultures that value and care for you? Do you understand your employment rights within an informal and confusing sector?
Do you want to work in a world where people are cared for as well as the environment? And do you feel that your care and love for what you do can be taken advantage of in a way that creates unhealthy working conditions?
Know Your Rights!, is a free, online event on Sunday 1st June, 2-5pm organised by Solidarity Across Land Trades (SALT), in collaboration with ATLEU, Community Food Growers Network (CFGN) and Tower Hamlets Food Partnership (THFP).
This workshop offers a chance for food growers, landworkers, hospitality staff, volunteers, freelancers, co-op members and more to hear from Jamila Duncan-Bosu, a legal expert from the Anti Trafficking and Labour Exploitation Unit, who will be sharing clear, up-to-date guidance on workers’ rights.
The session is designed to be participatory, with time for attendees to share their own experiences and questions. Whether it’s confusion around contracts, unsafe conditions, or challenges with pay and job security, this event aims to equip workers with the knowledge and solidarity needed to begin organising for change.
What to expect
- Practical legal information tailored to your real-life workplace scenarios
- Peer-led discussions and story-sharing
- Strategies to organise and build collective power in land-based trades
- A supportive, accessible and inclusive space with welfare support available
Who is it for
The session is open to workers – defined as anyone without hiring/firing power, not owning a business, and not in senior management. This includes employees, apprentices, volunteers, trainees, freelancers, and members of worker co-ops.
Accessibility is prioritised; support such as BSL, captioning, translation, and welfare check-ins are available.
How to get involved
Register here to attend and help shape the session by submitting questions in advance.
Contact: salt_union@proton.me or call 07941 696070 for access or support needs.
Join for an afternoon of learning, sharing and strategising to build workers' power! ✊
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